Aneurysm fear,My Health anxiety is getting worse at times

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lately ive been getting random jabbing stabbing like headpains all over my head , i think they're ice pick pains but ever since my fear of having an unruptured brain aneurysm the ice picks have only added on to that fear, ive also gotten really small split seconds of pain in or on my ears and nervous lower tummy aches,and whenever i go to sleep at night i sometimes feel a quick tingling like rush from my head and down the top half of my body or sometimes numb tingling on just the whole left side, after i once had the ambulance come for me after feeling the numbness he said i was only 17 and to young to suffer from an aneurysm or stroke, and calmed me down especially after saying everything looked healthy from me, but i know u can never truly know if you have an unruptured aneurysm until u get an MRI and hospital stuff costs a lot of money so i cant exactly get that done right now , and even if i could im afraid of the radiation in the mri scans , but besides that these random small headaches from the back or sides of my heads and the random jabbing ice picks have really got me scared, this entire weak, and health anxiety which is practically stress from ever since the school year started and ended makes me think that the stress caused an aneurysm to grow, so i could use someone to talk to about this or some good advice or statements to help me,

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    An MRI contains no radiation. A CAT scan does. Besides, you would get a MRA ., It checks the arteries in the brain.

    however your symptoms do not sound like a ruptured or unruptured aneurysm. My dad actually had one that ruptured but his symptoms were nothing like yours. He never got the numbness tingling, jabs of pain. I have had all of your symptoms plus many more. They were all due to anxiety. If you had a brain aneurysm, you would know it!

    if you relax your mind your symptoms would go away or decrease.

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    hi, anxiety has a way of making you over think everything. NO, you dont have an aneurysm but your making your anxiety go into high gear worrying about it. if you think something so long your body will start to feel it even tho it may not be there. I started suffering from anxiety when i was 17 im now 31. When i had my first anxiety no one could tell me i wasnt dying including the doctors. they put me on meds which made it a little better but i didnt like the side effects.So i stopped taking them except 1 thats as needed. YES, i still have my days but all in all im doing well. ALL of the symptoms you named I have all the time. Go to your doctor and tell them youre suffering from anxiety they will give you something to calm yourself down. I know its horrible and very hard to deal with because you feel no one understand. But i promise you i do!! you will get through this and stop stressing yourself thinking about it. I promise u will be ok, the faster you seek help the faster you will heal. if you need to talk anytime just message me!

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      thank you 😭 hearing all that really does help a lot , I'm literally always a nervous wreck that cant live life

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    you ever had a migrain? This anurysme headache is the mother of headaches. It's the worse headache you'll ever have. I had a seriously ugly brain anurysm 7 years ago and my surgion said I shouldn't have mad it. "symptoms, pondunding headach in my frotal lo be .. that's were I was attact. couldn't sit up without vomiting. All I could think about is ,why it sn't this going awa/ I felt an overwhelming flow of liquid. If you have any of fhese sympromsand hear a "pop" call 911!Dont wait for anyone. IF you are having headaches, don't sscrw around around. My doctor told me I was just on time because the blood was already wreaking hAVOC and I had a brain clot. The only thing that saved my life that night was I crawed up into my bd with my head to the foot of bet and curled up into a fetal poition

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